Heidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. In the past, she worked for Disney, DC Comics, Fox and Publishers Weekly. She can be heard regularly on the More To Come Podcast. She likes coffee, cats and noble struggle.

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Oh, the poor animal. I’ve never known a dog that wouldn’t be immediately trying to rid itself of that get-up, beginning with the mask. One can only imagine the fight it put up over the effort to dress it in body tights. Sorry to rain on people’s parade, but that’s just sadistic.

There was also a dog at the first two NYCCs cosplaying as Krypto (by wearing a red cape with a Superman symbol, which probably felt minimally weird to the dog compared to the Captain America costume), but it wasn’t this one. The woman with it didn’t appear to be blind or otherwise disabled, so I’m not sure what ReedPop’s rules regarding dogs are.

Not all disabilities can be seen by the naked eye. I have a service dog too whom accompanies me everywhere and he cosplays. His most popular costumes is as Krypto. He is a Siberian Husky. If it were not for my service dog I wouldn’t be able to attend big events like Gen Con